This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Devices > Literary Devices – Quiz 442 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Devices Quiz 442 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" A) Symbolism. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 2. The author's message is called A) The conflict. B) Symbolism. C) Point of view. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 3. What literary device is displayed in this sentence? "Justice is blind, and at times, deaf" A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. A camper becomes lost in the woods. A) Person vs Nature. B) Person vs Technology. C) Person vs Society. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person vs Nature. 5. Two verses, usually in the same meter, that are joined by rhyming. (Ex: "Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow." ) A) Apostrophe. B) Verbal irony. C) Couplet. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 6. "My dad is strong like Superman" is saying..... A) My dad is NOT strong. B) My dad wishes he were superman. C) My dad is very strong. D) My dad is Superman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My dad is very strong. 7. "When I see you, the world stops for a while. Which figurative language is being used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 8. He feigns hope with his countenance, presses a deep sorrow upon his heart A) Synchesis. B) Chiasmus. C) Litotes. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chiasmus. 9. A character whose contrast with the main character (protagonist) serves to accentuate the latter's distinctive qualities or characteristics. A) Foil. B) Analogy. C) Unrelated. D) Connotation. E) Epigraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foil. 10. To compare two things using like or as A) Simile. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. Jamie runs as fast as the wind. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. Simile or Metaphor? He is a night owl because he stays up late. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. A comparison using "like" or "as" ("life is like a box of chocolates") A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. What device is used here:I'm so hungry I can eat a horse! A) Foreshadowing. B) Hyperbole. C) Flashback. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 15. "Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber of a tomb world where no sound from the great city could penetrate." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 16. A giant tortoise can live to be over 150 years old. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fact. 17. Opposition A) The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. B) A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. 18. Irony (Verbal) A) An interruption of the chronological sequence (as of a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence. B) A warning or indication of a future event in the text. C) Stating the opposite of what one really means. D) The contrast between what we think should happen and what actually does happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stating the opposite of what one really means. 19. The bus took forever to get here! A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 20. A word mimics or imitates a sound A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Devices Quiz 1Literary Devices Quiz 2Literary Devices Quiz 3Literary Devices Quiz 4Literary Devices Quiz 5Literary Devices Quiz 6Literary Devices Quiz 7Literary Devices Quiz 8Literary Devices Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books